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Fast for Freedom in Mental Health Information

Here is basic information about the historic 2003 hunger strike sponsored by MindFreedom International to demand evidence from the American Psychiatric Association and other mental health organizations of any "biological basis" of any major psychiatric disorder.

 

Krista EricksonThis is your portal to information about the 2003 Fast for Freedom in Mental Health. 

Announcement and news release about event. 

Some of the media coverage (LA Times, Washington Post). 

Dialogue between American Psychiatric Association and Scientific Advisory Board for MindFreedom International. 

Robert Whitaker's book Anatomy of an Epidemic recommends the Fast for Freedom as a model about challenging the way the medical model unscientifically dominates the psychiatric industry. 

Hunger strike participant David Oaks includes the hunger strike in his chapter in a book on psychiatric coercion published by World Psychiatric Association leaders, and you can download the chapter free here. 

 

(Photo: Krista Erickson, hunger striker, being interviewed by media.)

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Jim Gottstein of PsychRights

Jim Gottstein is a psychiatric survivor who is also a Harvard-trained attorney, and founder of MindFreedom Sponsor Group PsychRights. Jim blew the whistle on Eli Lilly by releasing their secret documents about the psychiatric drug Zyprexa to The New York Times. Jim is also president of National Association of Rights Protection and Advocacy (NARPA) a founding Sponsor Group of MFI.

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